Financial & Managerial Accounting 17th Edition by Jan Williams ,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner,Joseph Carcello

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General Mills produces and sells a variety of food products in numerous countries. Access its home page and look at the company overview at the following address:
www.generalmills.com
Now consider Kirby Company. It manufactures and sells one product line-vacuum cleaners and their accessories. Access its home page at the following address:
www.Kirchy.com
Instructions
a. Based on information from the Web site, how would you divide General Mills into responsibility centers based on product lines? Give examples of possible investment centers, profit centers, and cost centers.
b. Based on information from the Web site, how would you divide Kirhy. into responsibility centers? Give examples of possible investment centers, profit centers, and cost centers.
c. What organizational factors might account for the differences between the two firms' responsibility center systems?
Internet sites are time and date sensitive. It is the purpose of these exercises to have you explore the Internet. You may need to use the Yahoo! search engine (or another favorite search engine) to find a company's current Web address.